Disclaimer: How can I own Fruits Basket when I don't even own a banana…or mango?
Indignantly Ayame scoffed as Shigure walked him out to the front door. "I don't see why Yuki is so cold to me, Gure." The dressmaker told his friend miserably. "I mean I'm a likeable guy, am I not? What's to hate?"
The novelist shrugged in reply and suggested easily, "Maybe he has a thing against snakes, Aya."
The snake of the zodiac put his hand to his chin thoughtfully before stating his befuddlement. "Well, I don't get it. I mean who doesn't like a typical snake? Yuki is obviously disillusioned to hate not only his big brother but also snakes in general."
"You can't blame
him." Shigure responded evenly. "Snakes don't have the greatest
track record, you know?"
"I resent that Shigure!" Ayame
cried, affronted as he slipped on his silk shoes, "Name me one
instance where snakes get a bad name."
"The Bible." The dog of the zodiac said with out a moments hesitation. Although not a Christian, he had read the text long ago. "The snake tempts the first woman, Eve, to eat the forbidden apple from the tree of knowledge."
Aya paused for a moment, imagining himself in his animal form wrapped around a tree branch caddy corner to where a naked woman (whose long hair conveniently covered her shame) stood. In her hands she held a large red apple. 'Oh just eat it already!' Ayame imagined himself saying to the woman, 'It'll go straight to your thighs anyway!!'
Snapping himself out of the mental image, Ayame stepped through the door and turned to face his life long friend. "I still don't see what you mean. Just because we snakes tell it like it is…"
Sweat dropping, the writer scratched his neck sheepishly and muttered to himself as his friend left, "I don't think he got the reference."
A/n: yes holy blaspheme Batman! Eh. What can I say? God has a sense of humor.